“A little less optimism about profit margins means a lower price target for the stock, Apple bull Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray said Thursday on CNBC,” Bruno J. Navarro reports for CNBC.
“Munster, considered one of the most positive analysts on Apple, adjusted his price target from $910 to $875 per share,” Navarro reports. “‘Yes, the narrative reads that we’ve cut our price target a couple of times, but at the end of the day, it’s still 70 percent upside to the current stock,’ he said. ‘We still feel very good about owning Apple in 2013.'”
– Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster
Navarro reports, “On ‘Fast Money,’ Munster said that he was factoring in lower margins on a potential sub-$400 phone from Apple, while also excluding the potential acceleration from any increase in market share in the price segment.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Who needs an actual product, pricing, or release date when you can just factor in speculation and a couple of vague newspaper reports to concoct a new AAPL price target? Gene might be losing not only his credibility, but also his mind.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
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Gene, time to move out of Minneapolis, you bring shame pun the rest o us.
Although rumours do drive stock prices, this rumour will not last an entire year. It will take something else to beat this stock down.
It is rumored that the rumor has been laid to rest. There always seems to be time for more rumors, though.
Um…. Gene. Phil Schiller just confirmed that Apple WON’T be making a cheap iPhone.
Yeah, you’re right on top of it Gene
Just say No.
There is a never-ending supply of rumors, scare tactics, and FUD that seems to be thrown around with AAPL. Gotta love mass social media where every person gets to voice every single thought they have. The name of the game seems to be in generating “hits” rather than the quality of the information.
It’s all about hits. Jim Cramer hired Rocco Pendola to generate hits for the street. Henry Blodget (owner) and Jay Yarow do so for business insider. Their hit pieces are extremely predictable. Problem is that the major networks (cnn, LA times, etc) pick their news from these hit whores.
Apple needs to address this because in the end it is affecting customer perception of the company.
I think Phil Schiller did just that.
Nice $400 stock range trapped on a longer term trend to $400.
Hmm. I wonder what would happen if I were to hear a rumor that 50 million Android users planned to switch to iPhone next quarter, and another 50 million in the following quarter? I wonder what that would do.
Rumor me this.
Alright, now you stupid fsck, put the price back up after Schiller made you look like an assdumb sphincter.
“Gene might be losing not only his credibility, but also his mind.”
So sad. He used to be the only analyst I trusted on AAPL. He was the first to understand the impact that the iPhone would have on the company. Now? I’m not sure what he’s thinking.
First Apple TV now this. Gene, check the memo from Phil!!!!
Sheesh!
I do not like this price target for AAPL. I don’t think the P/E should be under 30 for a company that has and will dominate a new industry every few years.